No plea or pretense is left you for declining your duty.

Money must be had; without it nothing proper can be done.

Every king and despot is a foe to freedom, an antagonist to laws.

Or when, O Athenians, shall we be willing to act as becomes us?

Good luck is for those who are in a position to avail themselves of it.

It became a maxim in their politics, that the end justified the means.

Do not imagine, that his empire is everlastingly secured to him as a god.

That which is the most lamentable in the past is best for the future.

You can never trust a character which is intricate and tortuous.

For nature puts a limit to living as to everything else.

But I quit life as I would an inn, not as I would a home.

It is one thing to live with a tyrant, another with a friend.

Once more, you see that nothing is so like death as sleep.

For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

For nothing gives you uneasiness which you do not miss.

The pirates' sense of honour is higher than the senate's.

In this, as in most things, the best rule is the golden mean.

People who are always bringing up their services are a nuisance.